Standardized pulsed-field gel electrophoresis by the GenePath Strain Typing® System for DNA-fingerprinting in nosocomial infections;Standardisierte Pulsfeld-Gel-Elektrophorese mit dem GenePath Strain Typing System® zum DNA-Fingerprinting bei nosokomialen Infektionen

LaboratoriumsMedizin

Volumn 19, Issue 1-12, 1995, Pages 512-522

  Schwitz, F J ^a   Geisell, R ^a   Wagnerl, S ^a   Heinz, H P ^a   Idel, H ^b   Hadding, U ^a  

^a Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Virologie ^*  (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

bacterial typing; Bakterientypisierung; Infection epidemiology; Infektionsepidemiologie; Nosoc mi l ihfectionis; nosokomiale Infektionen; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Pulsfeld Gel Elektrophorese

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; BUFFER; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; PROTEINASE; REAGENT; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029556976     PISSN: 03423026     EISSN: 14390477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/labm.1995.19.1-12.512     Document Type: Article

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